In this project, we were contracted to illustrate and create a children’s book based on a story written by Edin Sedic. We wanted to explore a different style and create something different by fusing traditional painting with digital.
We were highly inspired by the classic 1950’s Disney film ‘Alice in Wonderland’ where the backgrounds/environments appear to be hand-painted and the characters animated, you can clearly see the difference in style, but the characters look alive in the surroundings!
The Story follows an eagle chick that gets stuck in a chicken coop and soon starts behaving like a chicken.
Testing the approach
Before starting the project we wanted to create a visual sample and test the method and approach, so we tried to replicate a scene from the film. Starting by drawing and inking our own Rabbit character. Then we painted a landscape scene using water and acrylic. We were quite happy with the end result and so was our client.
